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30 years ago today (27th march)...

PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:51 pm
by Ivan
Maybe some of the older guys remember the news pictures of this...
KLM and Pan Am 747s collided at Tenerife killing over 500.
Still #1 on the list of worst crashes.
For the record, #2 is the one with th Il-76 that had a midair with a Saudi 747 on Haji flight... because of metric / feet misreading

Re: 30 years ago today (27th march)...

PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:14 am
by expat
Should be able to beat it with one A380.............That's progress ::)

Matt

Re: 30 years ago today (27th march)...

PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:23 pm
by Apex
A mention of this on the news yesterday.  I remember when that happened.  There's also been some rather close calls since then that would have resulted in a similar disaster had the worst happened.  583 (?) peopled died.

Re: 30 years ago today (27th march)...

PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:23 pm
by ATI_7500
Should be able to beat it with one A380....


I had a similar thought while reading this...but more in the terms of "Peanuts...sheesh! Two A380....now that would go "bang"!" :D